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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Gilroy characterize the third mode of double consciousness?
(a) Essentialist and rooted.
(b) Pluralistic and diasporic.
(c) International and collaborative with white culture.
(d) Indistinguishable from modernity.

2. What does Gilroy say Richard Wright was ambivalent to?
(a) A closed racial community.
(b) Harmonious coexistence with dominant culture.
(c) Reconciliation with white culture.
(d) Assimilation.

3. What ontological state does Gilroy say is the heart of many stories in black culture?
(a) The state of being in pain.
(b) The state of nostalgia for home.
(c) The state of displacement from the self.
(d) The state of longing for self-expression and fulfillment.

4. What phrase did Richard Wright use for the Negro?
(a) America's metaphor.
(b) The burden of guilt.
(c) The heart of modernity.
(d) The race that dare not speak its name.

5. What does Gilroy say blacks used to unify themselves?
(a) Music.
(b) Art.
(c) A political agenda.
(d) Literature.

6. Where does black culture draw its vocabulary of exile according to Gilroy?
(a) Thucydides.
(b) Homer.
(c) Camus.
(d) The Bible.

7. Where was W. E. B. DuBois born?
(a) Africa.
(b) The north.
(c) The south.
(d) England.

8. What movement is Richard Wright associated with?
(a) Black power.
(b) Black pacifism.
(c) Muslim militarism.
(d) Pan-Africanism.

9. How does Gilroy describe slavery?
(a) Brutal.
(b) Complex.
(c) Multi-faceted.
(d) Equivocal.

10. What does Gilroy say Afrocentrism is really?
(a) Americocentrism.
(b) Internationalism.
(c) Ethnicity protecting its flanks.
(d) Proletarianism.

11. What does Gilroy say we should discuss?
(a) The dangers of industrial technology.
(b) The opportunities for understanding brought about by modern communication techniques.
(c) Common themes between the Holocaust and slavery.
(d) The differences between the Holocaust and slavery.

12. What is the last period of black history, according to DuBois, in The Souls of Black Folk?
(a) Returning to Africa.
(b) Black music.
(c) Political autonomy.
(d) Black self-reliance.

13. Which adjective does DuBois NOT use for the black experience?
(a) Alienated.
(b) Communal.
(c) Individualized.
(d) Cosmopolitan.

14. What does Gilroy say was a formative influence on black culture in Richard Wright's works?
(a) Self-reliance.
(b) Common privation.
(c) Capitalism.
(d) Individualism.

15. Why would blacks be urged to forget slavery?
(a) To recall the larger tradition of African history.
(b) To reclaim their individual experiences of trauma, and live from there.
(c) To clear the way for the difficulties that are particular to modernity.
(d) To allow blacks to claim the benefits of modernity as their own.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gilroy predict will be the fault line issues for the twenty-first century?

2. The second mode of double consciousness portrays blacks as what?

3. What does Gilroy say modernism relies on?

4. What did DuBois say was a central feature of slave culture?

5. When did DuBois experience himself as a Negro for the first time?

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